Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

Twitter has Pulver-ized me. Time to move to Plurk?

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Well, Twitter has flipped me the bird.

Follow limit?

When I sent in a support request, asking what this was about, a few folks pointed me to a wiki talking about rate limiting – i.e. preventing certain actions for a period of time, like queries to the API.

However, after 4 days, things didn’t get better, so I opened a support case in as many ways as I could. Here was the response I got back:

The follow limit is different for every profile, based on that profile’s activity. If you’ve hit the follow limit for your profile, you can un-follow some people in order to follow others. You can stop following some people to follow others, however, you wont be able to follow more people than you’re following currently.

Twitter has Pulver-ized me – Jeff Pulver encountered the 5K ceiling with Facebook, and had to open a second account.

For those of you who have followed back as many people as you could, be glad you did – that may be all you ever get.

For those folks who view following back as important, I’m sorry to say that Twitter is now preventing that, at least for me.

In the meantime, I’m going to go over to Plurk and play around there some. You’re welcome to join me off Twitter at the following:

https://www.plurk.com/user/financialaidpodcast/

https://friendfeed.com/cspenn

Comments

15 responses to “Twitter has Pulver-ized me. Time to move to Plurk?”

  1. david usher Avatar
    david usher

    Hey Chris
    Ive also reached the 5000 person limit on Facebook. Its interesting that Jeff has opened another page. I actually talked to the Facebook folks about that (I was surprised at how good they are at responding to emails) and they warned me strongly about it being a violation and to use my Facebook Musicians Page instead.
    Question:
    do any of us really need to follow more than 2000 people on Twitter? Thats a lot of noise:)

    Reply
  2. david usher Avatar
    david usher

    Hey Chris
    Ive also reached the 5000 person limit on Facebook. Its interesting that Jeff has opened another page. I actually talked to the Facebook folks about that (I was surprised at how good they are at responding to emails) and they warned me strongly about it being a violation and to use my Facebook Musicians Page instead.
    Question:
    do any of us really need to follow more than 2000 people on Twitter? Thats a lot of noise:)

    Reply
  3. david usher Avatar
    david usher

    Hey Chris
    Ive also reached the 5000 person limit on Facebook. Its interesting that Jeff has opened another page. I actually talked to the Facebook folks about that (I was surprised at how good they are at responding to emails) and they warned me strongly about it being a violation and to use my Facebook Musicians Page instead.
    Question:
    do any of us really need to follow more than 2000 people on Twitter? Thats a lot of noise:)

    Reply
  4. GeekMommy Avatar
    GeekMommy

    You are kidding?
    So if I had mass-followed people 3 days ago, my limit would be maybe 3-4k but now, despite my always having maintained a 1-to-1 ratio and been a strong Twitter supporter, I have to CHOOSE between followers?
    That's outrageous.
    And if it's true – it will only serve to hurt Twitter – because I have no reason to use a service that won't let me interact with people w/o telling them that some of them aren't “as important” as others.

    I'm not a big plurk fan tho.
    I'll either be on identi.ca or given my preference Kwippy.com – which has given me unlimited invites and let's me thread comments.

    Reply
  5. GeekMommy Avatar
    GeekMommy

    You are kidding?
    So if I had mass-followed people 3 days ago, my limit would be maybe 3-4k but now, despite my always having maintained a 1-to-1 ratio and been a strong Twitter supporter, I have to CHOOSE between followers?
    That's outrageous.
    And if it's true – it will only serve to hurt Twitter – because I have no reason to use a service that won't let me interact with people w/o telling them that some of them aren't “as important” as others.

    I'm not a big plurk fan tho.
    I'll either be on identi.ca or given my preference Kwippy.com – which has given me unlimited invites and let's me thread comments.

    Reply
  6. Matt Searles Avatar
    Matt Searles

    Wow.. one wonder's who's making the decisions over there.. can you imagine the meeting where this decision took place?: “yeah, lets take the folks with the most followers, and there for perhaps the most influence, and push them away from our site.. at a time when everyone in the world is getting frustrated with our service, and there's a huge rise of upstarts nipping at our heals… I'm sure no one will follow them and leave our service.”

    Well one thing is for sure, myspace will never over take friend.. err, can't even remember what that site was called!

    I'm thinking frank zappa must have been onto something when he suggested that stupidity is a more common element in the universe then hydrogen.

    Reply
  7. Noah David Simon Avatar
    Noah David Simon

    twitter is hell

    Reply
  8. Matt Searles Avatar
    Matt Searles

    Wow.. one wonder's who's making the decisions over there.. can you imagine the meeting where this decision took place?: “yeah, lets take the folks with the most followers, and there for perhaps the most influence, and push them away from our site.. at a time when everyone in the world is getting frustrated with our service, and there's a huge rise of upstarts nipping at our heals… I'm sure no one will follow them and leave our service.”

    Well one thing is for sure, myspace will never over take friend.. err, can't even remember what that site was called!

    I'm thinking frank zappa must have been onto something when he suggested that stupidity is a more common element in the universe then hydrogen.

    Reply
  9. GeekMommy Avatar
    GeekMommy

    You are kidding?
    So if I had mass-followed people 3 days ago, my limit would be maybe 3-4k but now, despite my always having maintained a 1-to-1 ratio and been a strong Twitter supporter, I have to CHOOSE between followers?
    That's outrageous.
    And if it's true – it will only serve to hurt Twitter – because I have no reason to use a service that won't let me interact with people w/o telling them that some of them aren't “as important” as others.

    I'm not a big plurk fan tho.
    I'll either be on identi.ca or given my preference Kwippy.com – which has given me unlimited invites and let's me thread comments.

    Reply
  10. simonstudio Avatar
    simonstudio

    twitter is hell

    Reply
  11. Matt Searles Avatar
    Matt Searles

    Wow.. one wonder's who's making the decisions over there.. can you imagine the meeting where this decision took place?: “yeah, lets take the folks with the most followers, and there for perhaps the most influence, and push them away from our site.. at a time when everyone in the world is getting frustrated with our service, and there's a huge rise of upstarts nipping at our heals… I'm sure no one will follow them and leave our service.”

    Well one thing is for sure, myspace will never over take friend.. err, can't even remember what that site was called!

    I'm thinking frank zappa must have been onto something when he suggested that stupidity is a more common element in the universe then hydrogen.

    Reply
  12. Noah David Simon Avatar
    Noah David Simon

    twitter is hell

    Reply
  13. Jasmine Avatar
    Jasmine

    WHat is it with Twitter limit and why should there be any limit??

    Reply
  14. Jasmine Avatar
    Jasmine

    WHat is it with Twitter limit and why should there be any limit??

    Reply
  15. Jasmine Avatar
    Jasmine

    WHat is it with Twitter limit and why should there be any limit??

    Reply

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